Re: Core Data and NSOperation

FROM : Quincey Morris
DATE : Fri Mar 28 20:49:59 2008

On Mar 28, 2008, at 12:09, Daniel Thorpe wrote:

> I want to store the objects using Core Data, but have come up with a 
> possible problem. I've not used Core Data before, so I may have 
> understood this incorrectly, but the entities must be subclasses of 
> NSManagedObject, which NSOperation is not. So... how can I use Core 
> Data to manage the fetching and storing of the data, but NSOperation 
> to handle the computation?
>
> I've thought that I could maybe use my NSOperation based class as a 
> delegate of some NSManagedObject based class, which the Core Data 
> entity is based on. Is that possible? Or is there a better way? Does 
> Objective-C support multiple inheritance... I don't think it does....


I think you want NSInvocationOperation, not NSOperation.